Laboratory of Forest Art: 2019 art exhibition in the forest of Yokohama

It is this time of the year to meet the annual art exhibition, Laboratory of Forest Art, in the forest next to the Yokohama Zoorasia. On September 29th, 2019, the annual art exhibition is opened its 12^th show. It will be held till 14 October, organized by GROUP the Creation and Voice of the Woods 創造と森の声. (Phone/FAX: 045-933-1460, Email: morinokoe7@yahoo.co.jp, labforestart@gmail.com. Their HP is here.) As there is no parking, the access to the venue is by bus. The most convenient transportation is a bus ride to Yokohama Zoorasia, from JR Nakayama 中山 station, Sotetsu Tsurugamine 鶴ヶ峰 Station, or Sotetsu Mitsukyo 三ツ境 Station. (Time tables are here.) Get off the bus at Yokohama Zoorasia, and proceed further along for about 400m to the direction of #2 Parking of the Zoo. On the right, there will be a small gate with the sign GROUP the Creation and Voice of the Woods. If you visit the place during weekends, many buses will take us to the North Gate of Zoorasia (terminal stop) that is the closest to the exhibition entrance. When you leave the terminal stop of Zoorasia North Gate, go back a bit along the bus road, and on the left there is the sign for the GROUP. Bonus: this year, the City holds a Flower Show in the location for last year’s Satoyama Garden Festival. To facilitate the access to the show, the Office is experimenting autopilot bus, free of charge, between Zoorasia and the Flower Show location which is right next to the Zoorasia North Gate. You can enjoy a bus ride of tomorrow by using this service. 😄 From the sign for the GROUP, enter the forest; the road is a relatively wide walking promenade. On your left there is an entrance, and you can see a big banner over there saying “the Creation and Voice of the Woods 創造と森の声.”

Those are the autopilot busses
 to the Flower Festival from Zoorasia bus stop.

From the Flower Festival / North Gate of Zoorasia,
 the GROUP shows the way to the exhibition.

The gate to the forest for the Exhibition from Zoorasia

The entrance to the exhibition. Welcome!

The GROUP actually had public display of art creation in the forest between September 15-27. Then, a day before the opening, the Group built a yurt brought from Kyrgyzstan. In the yurt, they had a mini-concert on September 29^th. Inside the yurt was cozy. The GROUP also opened half the wall of the wool tent so that we could enjoy the concert outside as well. The yurt will be there till October 6^th to have a mini-market with goodies from the Central Asian region (11:00-15:00). Please come and enjoy delightful yurt surrounded by Yokohama’s art and forest. They also have art tours on October 5^th (13:30-) and October 13^th (14:30-). On October 13^th, Noriaki Oka presides a workshop to create “Curious Sunbeams from the Canopy” from 10:30 (: cost = 500yen). On the final day, October 14^th, they arrange the last art tour from 10:30, and a symposium from 13:00. If you are interested in them, please come to the entrance of the exhibition at those times. When you enter the forest, there is a reception desk where we can have free pamphlets and the map of the forest for the show.

This year’s map for the exhibition

The yurt

At the entrance,
 last year’s vignette has new design, which includes

these dancers.

The music we enjoyed during the opening was by the musicians of Dombra, and a music unit Fu-Ching-Gido. Four lady musicians, three Japanese and one Kazakh played two-string instruments from the Central Asia. The tunes they chose for this occasion were from classics to modern, but all of them had a very warm tone wafting from the Yurt. Above the roof of the tent, the canopies of tall trees surrounding the open space were gently swinging. A swallowtail butterfly, probably Papilio protenor, danced leisurely above us. That was a very relaxing experience for Sunday afternoon … The dombra musicians passed the baton to Fu-Ching-Gido. They normally played with PA system, but today their performance was purely acoustic. Up-tempo tunes of their music sound very gentle and simply merry, or, I would say, no-hysteric atmosphere. It’s like my activated parasympathetic nerve system with dombra naturally switched to still-relaxing Sunday afternoon sympathetic mode. I loved that. The existence of yurt in the forest gave us a sort of basecamp to get comfortable for forest art. Yurta was a very good idea for an art exhibition in the forest.

There were audience who could not enter the packed-Yurt.
It was all right to listen to relaxing music surrounded by the forest.

Four muses. They were lovely.

Chairs were provided outside.

Merry music of Fu-Ching-Gido

8 artists have installed their work for the 2019 show. This year, they utilized the size of their forest more than these recent years. They are getting used to their 2^nd home, I guess. As the last year, each installation shows a QR code that can lead us to the concept of the work explained by the words of the artist. I show you the link for each manifestation of the concept, which is the same web-page you can open from the QR code.

Installation 1: Haruna Chikada, “Sinking into the forest 森に沈む”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/haruna-chikada-1

Installation 2: Noriaki Oka, “Arch of Sunbeams from the Canopy 木洩れ日アーチ”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/noriaki-oka

Installation 3: ASADA, “Home in the Forest, Forest in the Home 森のウチ、ウチの森”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/asada-asada-1

Installation 4: Akatsuki Harada, “Regeneration 再生”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/akatsuki-harada-1

Installation 5: Kazuo Ishikuro, “Mori Mori モリモリ”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/kazuo-ishikuro-1

Installation 6: Youichiro Yoshikawa, “Green Circle in Green 緑の中の緑のまる”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/youichiro

Installation 7: Yoko Kiga, “Out from the Frame 枠組みの中から”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/youko-kiga-1

Installation 8: Kazuma Horie, “Exuberate 繁茂する”

https://labforestart.wixsite.com/mysite/kazuma-horie-1

Probably, all the artists are “getting used to” the creation within the forest. No installation was a war declaration that we could find in, say, 4 years ago. Their forest has lots of trees destroyed by the strong winds of Typhoon Faxai on September 9^th. Whatever. It seems to me GROUP’s creation is nonchalantly staying together with the torn trunks of Quercus acutissima. It’s something in this age of SDG. This year till October 5^th the Group also has an exhibition booth in the Flower Show that is held at the next forest where the autopilot buses are coming and going. The Group is changing every year.

The booth for GROUP the Creation and Voice of the Woods at Flower Show

If you find a problem in the site introduced in this post, the best contact address will be GROUP the Creation and Voice of the Woods.

https://morilab.amebaownd.com/

e-mail: morinokoe7@yahoo.co.jp, labforestart@gmail.com.

The city office which is in charge of this forest is

Office for the Park Greeneries in the North 北部公園緑地事務所

Yokohama Municipal Government Creative Environment Policy Bureau 横浜市環境創造局

Phone: 045-311-2016

FAX: 045-316-8420

A short notice: my next post will be in Sunday morning, PST

Hello, just a short notice.
My next post will be at 4:00 PST on September 29th (Sunday) to cover the opening of 2019 Forest Labo Art Exhibition in Yokohama.
Please stay tuned. 😊
Hugs,
Naomi

A forest in a forest of skyscrapers: Japanese Garden of Hotel New Otani

Last May, we Japanese have the succession of throne from Emperor Akihito to the current Emperor Naruhito. Emperor Naruhito will have two months long coronation ceremonies this October and November. Granted, until these ceremonies are over, he has not been introduced officially to the foreign countries. But, when I’ve met a casual Frenchman who described Akasaka Palace 赤坂御所 to his company such that “Guys, this is a guesthouse for foreigners,” I had a sort of urge to express my patriotism. I corrected his explanation (in front of those foreign guests), “Excuse me. This is the residence of our current Emperor.” FYI, yes, next to the area of Akasaka Palace, there is one building for state guests where they can stay. But it’s not within the Akasaka Palace which is the residences of Imperial family. At the moment, the Emperor, Crown Prince Fumihito and 3 other princes have their mansions in the forest of Akasaka Palace. Former Emperor and Empress will eventually move back to Akasaka Palace from the Imperial Palace as this was their sweet home where they nurtured their kids, Naruhito, Fumihito, and Sayako. The very close old couple is now undergoing cancer treatments. Former Emperor Akihito is having prognostic observation after prostate cancer operation. Former Empress Michiko has just finished an operation for her breast cancer. Considering their great age and conditions, Japanese government is currently building new residence in Akasaka Palace according to their new physical requirement. Until this is over, the grandparents were planned to stay in a royal residence in Takanawa 高輪 (in Shinagawa Ward) temporarily, and new Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako were supposed to move to the Imperial Palace. Having said that, there is no news for this royal house exchange to occur soon. I personally guess a good son Emperor Naruhito is thinking the health of his parents and tries to minimize physical impact for them by changing residences frequently. He’s commuting to his office in Imperial Palace from Akasaka. So, currently, Imperial Palace is for former Emperor and Empress, and Akasaka Palace is the place where our Emperor lives.

North east corner of Imperial Palace.
 Beyond the moat is a part of the imperial forest.

Encountering this rather rude foreign understanding of palaces in Tokyo, I recalled the difference of notion about “royal” things between Europe and Japan. Yeah, the house of Bourbon lived in a stone palace surrounded equally stone-made buildings in Paris, or a stone palace surrounded by extremely trimmed artificial rows of trees in Versailles. Japanese emperors have preferred more natural environment with suitable flora. So, when we look their residences from outside, they simply look like a forest. Imperial Place could be a typical example, and so for Akasaka Palace. Traditionally, rich and powerful Japanese love to have houses surrounded by forests, or “garden” for them, even if that was in the middle of megalopolis. When we examine a map of present-day Tokyo, large greenery areas are mainly to the west of Imperial Palace. That’s because this portion of Tokyo was once a property of direct families of Tokugawa Shogun 徳川家, a previous occupant of Edo Castle, aka Imperial Palace. House of Tokugawa kept their wealth and power from 1600 to 1868 (Meiji Restoration 明治維新). They were rich. Inevitably, their houses in Edo (Tokyo) were encircled by large greenery, and so, the west of Imperial Palace still has larger vegetation area. Akasaka Palace situates itself in the former property of Kishu Tokugawa Family 紀州徳川家 who donated this place to the Emperor in 1868. Actually, it was their mansion #1, one of Kishu Tokugawa’s three mansions in Edo. Between Edo Castle and Kishu Tokugawa mansion #1, there were Kishu Tokugawa’s mansion #2 and mansion #2 for the Lord of Hikone. Lord of Hikone, aka House of I’I 井伊家, was a family providing Viceroy for Shogun to manage national politics. His 2^nd residence in Edo was also in a semi-forest at the very center of Tokyo. The current royal palaces in Tokyo are off-limit for us without permits from Imperial Household. In contrast, to experience the forest of Lord of Hikone, the only thing we have to do is to visit Hotel New Otani, a five-star hotel. This week, I tell you my adventure in Japanese Garden of Hotel New Otani, Tokyo.

Hotel New Otani

Hotel New Otani is in former property of Lord of Hikone, at Akasaka Mitsuke 赤坂見附. From there, Akasaka Palace, Residence of Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Residence of President of the House of Councillors are about 5-10 minutes stroll. i.e. the hotel is in the center of Tokyo. At the time of Meiji Restoration, Lord of Hikone donated the place to the Emperor. It became a residence for Prince Fushimi-no-miya 伏見宮. The place was famous for its beautiful forest “garden.” During the World War II with the intensive bombings by Americans on Tokyo, it could not escape from the decay. After the war, there was pressure from the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces to sell the premise to some foreigners from Allies (; Government of France was interested in it, a gardener of the hotel told me). A steel magnate named Yonetaro Otani raised his hand to buy the entire property from the Imperial Family. For a while he made the mansion his private home and poured his money to restore the forest. Then, Tokyo became the place for 1964 Olympics (and the Paralympics; do you know the name Paralympics was first used for 1964 Games?). According to 1964 newspaper interview to Otani, Shojiro Kawashima, then Minister of Tokyo Olympics, asked him to open a world-class hotel in Tokyo. Otani replied to this call by constructing a BIG hotel on his land. The place became Hotel New Otani.

A statue of Yonetaro Otani
 in the garden of the Hotel.

Otani preserved the space for 350 years’ old forest “garden.” The house of Prince Fushimi-no-miya was became home for Otani. The architecture is now a part of Nadaman なだ万, a leading restaurant for Japanese traditional cuisine in Tokyo. The forest near “Garden Court” is made of the oldest trees some of which can be found its existence in the 18^th century official document of Lord of Hikone. The hotel did more. After the opening, they expanded its facilities, which included a large civil engineering project to connect the original hotel (called “the Main” now) with the newer additions (like “Garden Tower”) which was planned to stand on the lower altitude along Kioicho Street 紀尾井町通. They brought in large rocks from all over Japan and constructed 6m high waterfalls using the difference in geographical elevations along a steep slope and water from the remnant of the outer moat for Edo Castle. The space is now called “Japanese Garden” of Hotel New Otani. The Garden takes a traditional style that features paths around ponds, and, in this case, dramatic waterfalls. 

A former house of the Prince Fushimi-no-miya,
 then of Mr. Otani, and now for Nadaman Restaurant.

A man-made waterfall

They have two waterfalls in “Japanese Garden.”
 This one is smaller than the above.

Now a cadre of specialized staff for the Hotel is quietly maintaining the Garden for 365 days. The vegetation, the meandering road in the garden, the water, the structures, dry landscapes with rocks and sands … all are immaculate thanks to their high professionalism. Not many visitors explore the deeper parts of the Garden. When you enter the oldest part of it with the 18^th century trees, you can recall the tranquil solitude in a deep forest although next to us beyond the moat runs always uber-busy Metropolitan Expressway. I just wondered how the Lord of Hikone thought of this place. He was commuting to his office as a Viceroy in Edo Castle, 800m from there. Although there was no car or metro then, his environment of daily life would not have been much different from the jobs in skyscrapers for present-day national political scenes. He had such a daily luxury to immerse himself in “nature” before/after office ... Really? Near the entrance to Nadaman, there are two large ancient trees both of which are designated as Official Treasure for Chiyoda Ward. One is Japanese nutmeg-yew (Torreya nucifera), and another is yew plum pine (Podocarpus macrophyllus). In the Garden, they are pruned perfectly well. You cannot have such trees unless they were taken care of from the beginning … If they have stood in real wild, I think they would have had a different shape 400 years later. This is the Garden which can invoke the image of wild nature, but highly controlled man-made ecosystem that is centuries old. It’s a very Japanese garden forest. 

You need this one for a Japanese garden, don’t you?

The shrubs are perfectly managed.

When we look beneath the “crown” of the above photo,
 all the older stems are neatly mowed.
 Please imagine the effort to do beneath the 50cm tall
 any shrubs in the garden whose expanse is not at all trivial.
 When we can control the past stems in this way,
 the outer presence of the hedges in Japan will be perfect
as it can circulate the air beneath and prevent
 any mildews or pests from flourishing in the bush.
 This is the work of professionals.

Japanese nutmeg-yew of House of I’i.
The tree as a species tends to spread its branches
wider than this individual if it’s left as is.
 We can find such Japanese nutmeg-yew in,
 for example, temples of Kamakura
 where trimming was not allowed for centuries.
 The shape is a testimony that this tree is “controlled.”

Yew plum pine.
 This one also has been heavily taken care of for centuries.

I guess Akasaka Palace would be a similar kind of forest to the Garden of Hotel New Otani, although it would be far larger. For Imperial Palace, I’m not sure … As Emperor Hirohito was an extreme naturalist who did not allow to manicure his forest. (Please see my post on June 1^st, 2018). In any case, it is surprising for us to find such places in the center of Tokyo of the 21^st century. Forests are preserving traditional aesthetics secretly. Hmmmmmm … it may be difficult to understand such things for an accidental visitor from Paris. Please go and experience the space by yourself if you come to Tokyo. The best part of it is, its admission is FREE, and no need to stay in the 5-star facility. 😉

Viceroy’s deep forest in the center of megalopolis Tokyo.

A part of the Hotel,
 and a forest of skyscrapers.

Hotel New Otani

4-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, 102-8578, Japan

Phone: 03-3265-1111

https://www.newotani.co.jp/tokyo/

Moths flying into the flame: observing insects gathering around torch light in Yadoriki やどりき水源林

Normally, when we’re walking in forests, it’s a day, not a night. Those bugs we encounter are not coming to us, except mosquitos or the like. In contrast, during night when we light a non-LED torch, nocturnal insects come to us. That’s something everybody knows, I guess. Now, let’s take such nature of bugs and have a party with them under torch light! That’s an idea of insect observation with night light. This summer, I had occasions to join such activity in Yadoriki Water Source Forest やどりき水源林. It was mesmerizing experience, I tell you. We installed a simple stage for insects to come guided by artificial light, and welcomed, literally, a wonderful cadre of bugs which usually are very difficult to meet. This week, I tell you my night adventure in Yadoriki with bugs!

First, the preparation. Under the guidance of senior forest instructors, we built a “stage” for bugs to come for human light. We pitched a white screen made of cotton linen in a somehow exposed space in Yadoriki Forest. “You see? We need to indicate insects from 360° that our light is here. We chose this place which is relatively open in a deep valley. When we light up the screen, it should be seen from all the directions including from the peaks and ridges.” We installed 5 lights illuminating the white linen. 2 of them were good ‘ol fluorescent white lamps. Another was 2 black lights that emitted ultra-violet light invisible for humans, but heart-throbbing for insects. We attached these 4 lights on the screen. We then flashed a large torch light towards the stage. The scenario was, the bugs in the forest would see something illuminated (by the torch light) in an open space. They came near to find more inviting vibe of florescent and black lights and stayed on the screen for us to observe them. When the sun set, we switched on the 5 lights for the white screen and waited in quiet and dusky Yadoriki Forest, eating supper. All things come to those who wait.

A florescent lamp and a black light

A torch light

We used these two wooden benches.
Four additional feet (; a foot is indicated by the yellow arrow here)
 of the same benches were

Utilized to construct the frame for the screen, like this.

The base for the screen is ready.

Stretching the white linen securely …

Installing the lights …

In this version,
 we attached 2 black lights on the sides of the screen.
It did not work well as we did in the above photo
 where we installed these on the top.
 We changed the place for the black lights to the top
 during the session.

The rise of the curtain!

It is said that insects active during night use moon light to navigate through pitch-black space. As moon is very far, when the bugs keep a certain position against the moon light, they can determine by themselves their flight course. Now, when humans bring artificial light, insects mistake our brightness as moon, and try to maintain their aeronautical angle to man-made illumination. Alas, human light is too near for them to hold one direction in this way. They spiral near and near to the light source and end up on the light itself. Observation of nycterine insects with lamplights uses such characteristics of bugs. How the stage of ours was looked like for them in the forest, I wondered … Night howls of deer were echoing in dark Yadoriki Forest. They were alarmed by strangely illuminated white something in their valley … And the insects came.

Welcome!

First it was small mosquito like bugs. What were they? Mayflies, stoneflies … They were so many … and tiny. To identify the species, I’ve learned, we need to note the details of their body, like the way lines of their wings go, the construction of the segments of their abdomen, etc. We need really good magnifying glass, and an extremely still mayfly on the white linen that allows us to study their body construction. I quickly abandoned such analysis, and decided to admire their existence on a white screen. It was a fascinating scenery. They have only one day, or a couple more, in their life to have such apparition, after a long aquatic life as larva. Hmmm … our white screen might be a convenient dating café for them to find a mate in quick, as they were so many … Eventually, larger bugs started to come, like drone beetles, stoneflies, squash bugs, etc. Even Orobdella octonaria Oka visited us. It was a large leech. The one we met was about 30cm long. It swallows earthworms down, sacks its bodily fluid as meal, and spits out the dead worm. (Woooooooooooooooow.) Ours did not have any prey in its mouth, but it seems to me it liked to move towards the direction of light source. Earthworms are moving the opposite direction of light … then, why did this giant leech come to the light? I wondered.

A stonefly, Gibosia thoracica (Okamoto)

A mayfly

Prionus insularis

Orobdella octonaria Oka.
  Though it looks grotesque,
 the creature itself is not interested in us humans.
 It will never attack us like vampire leeches.
 Relax!

The time for those larger insects (and a leech) congregating around the light, it was for the protagonists and the primadonna to show up. The hero of the night was Miyama stag beetle. It is a stag beetle whose females lay eggs only with the temperature lower than 25°C, and hence dwells in cooler area of deep forests made of deciduous trees with lots of sweet sap. As Japan is observing warmer climate these days, it is becoming difficult for us to encounter the insect although they are active not only in night but also under day light. Japanese authorities think it is nearing to the endangered species status … They came to our white screen in deep Yadoriki Forest. We held our breath and admired their strong presence on the white linen. “Wow! Look! They are large. 6 or 7cm long?” “He surely gets angry. How aggressive his angry pose is ...” “And this one does not want to fight.” “Peacenik?” “Maybe.” These stags are strong enough to pierce our nails when we are so rude to this king of the forest. And so, I felt nervous to think such a strong looking beetle is approaching to rarity. I remember decades ago we could find them more easily during summer camps … Whatever is said about global warming, the ladies of Miyama stag beetle cannot bear babies when it is too hot. That’s for sure. And we cannot meet them easily these days. Is it just a coincidence?

A male Miyama stag beetle threatening anybody nearing him.

Two stag beetles maneuver delicate balance of power … 

Primadonna of torchlight observation was moths. First smaller ones came, like Pseudoips prasinanus and Scopula superior, etc., etc. Then, bigger Madonnas appeared. Mimas christophi, Eudocima tyrannus, and magnificent Actias aliena … I tell you moths are dead gorgeous. I don’t know why people treasure butterflies more than moths. Ages ago, there was a hut called Komaba Little Theatre 駒場小劇場 in Komaba Campus of Tokyo University. One week before Christmas, a theatrical company called Yume no Yuminsha (“Dreaming Bohemian”) led by Hideki Noda 野田秀樹, performed there a drama “Forty-Seven Ronin: Mathematical Induction by Fabre who could not be an insect 赤穂浪士‐昆虫になれなかったファーブルの数学的帰納法.” The playwright-director-leading actor Noda played Fabre who was a nerdy and neglected kid. In a typical twist of Noda’s theatre, Fabre boy grew up to be a tyrant Actias aliena. (So, Fabre became an insect in the end, metaphorically or not.) In the play there was a conversation of characters which went like “How beautiful that bug is,” “But that’s a moth,” “What!? (With a disdaining tone) A moth!?” After Fabre metamorphosed into Actias aliena, the entire scene became really dream-like and Noda’s shining white costume was brightly illuminated by lights of a large mirror ball. I simply wondered why such a beautiful Actias aliena was treated in that way for the story. Komaba Little Theatre was really a crumbling old empty space filled with young energy of artists and audience. We directly sat on concrete floor in an evening of Tokyo’s December without heating. I had not seen real Actias aliena yet. Ever since, encountering living Actias aliena was one of the items in my bucket list. This summer I’ve checked this important item of my life.

I took a photo of Eudocima tyrannus from this angle.
 Don’t you think it resembles to some Pokemon characters?
 Cute!

Microblepsis manleyi

Does Mimas christophi look like a fighter jet,
or a fighter jet look like a Mimas christophi?

Actias aliena was really beautiful, and large. Although it resembles to weightless fairy in a photo of Wikipedia, in Yadoriki living Actias aliena flapped its wing with noise and struggled to find a hold strong enough to sustain its weight on a vertically stretched white linen. Yes, it looked as a magical creature, but they were desperate to find a mate during its very brief adult life without mouth to feed itself. I’m not sure if Hideki Noda knows living Actia aliena in fact. But I’m somehow convinced of Actias aliena for “Forty-Seven Ronin” in Komaba Little Theatre. Not everybody depreciates you, the moth. You’re magnificent, at least Naomi knows.

We were visited by several Actia aliena on that night.
Our observation screen might have been a dating spot for them …

We could not identify what it was.
 If you have any idea,
 we appreciate your kind help!

Oh, by the way, night observation sessions of insects in Yadoriki Water Source Forest is a kind of privilege of Kanagawa Forest Instructors. The place prohibits the usage of fire or electricity without permission of the landlord, aka Prefectural Government. We do citizen science with annual night observation sessions to check which species are alive in Yadoriki Forest. The senior instructors are mulling a plan for such an event in Yadoriki Forest to visitors. One of them told me Kanagawa Prefecture is not positive for the idea as the place is in a deep mountain and night risk for casual guests are non-negligible. Please keep crossing your fingers … Someday you maybe able to join us. 😊

If you find an environmental issues in Kanagawa Prefecture, please make a contact with Kanagawa Natural Environment Conservation Center 神奈川県自然環境保全センター

657 Nanasawa, Atsugi City, 243-0121 〒243－0121　厚木市七沢657
Phone: 046-248-0323

You can send an enquiry to them by clicking the bottom line of their homepage at http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/div/1644/